the twenty days of turin by giorgio de maria

conveying the 'intonation of war cries.virulent and hostile.' And then, of course, there were the strange murders that took place during this time, and witnesses who 'made certain they didn't see anything.' It was as if the city was in the grip of unknown dark forces unleashed by the cosmos itself, blanketing Turin's citizens in terror to the point where, as our narrator discovers, people are still reluctant to discuss their experiences some ten years later. Some witnesses reported strange smells in the air others were disturbed by unworldly noises, screams that seemed to relay 'some kind of message,' with 'always something gray and metallic deep behind it,'. It was a time of drought, a time when men and women struggled with a strange insomnia that prompted them to 'shamble' through the streets and plazas of Turin during the night. neither a war nor a revolution, but as it's claimed, 'a phenomenon of collective psychosis' - with much of that definition implying an epidemic'Īnd actually, the word 'epidemic' seems an appropriate description for what follows as the twenty days are recounted through interviews and other media uncovered by our narrator. Our guide through this book of strange events in the city of Turin both past and present is an unnamed man who has decided to write a book about the 'Twenty Days of Turin Not so much for the horror elements here, but more because of the feeling that this book, while written in the late 1970s, has a certain timeliness about it that terrifies me, one that is more frightening than the contents of any horror novel.

The Twenty Days of Turin were the final warning of the LORD!' -57,58īy the time I'd put this book down, I was actually shaking. 'The dark forces that seek to hold us back are far from vanquished.' - 53 Originally published as Le venti giornate del Torino, 1977

The twenty days of turin by giorgio de maria